PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
Originating from the Eastern Himalayas, China, Japan and Taiwan his wonderful small, slow growing tree, was introduced into the Uk around 1890. To my mind one of the most beautiful of all small garden trees and an RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. As its common name suggests, it has strictly tiered branches that from spring to autumn are wreathed in stunning creamy margined leaves. Flowers are produced in abundance in early summer and are formed in white upturned clusters along the tops of the branches. In autumn the leaves turn to hues of red orange and purple. Perhaps not as good as the green leaved variety, but still a pleasure to behold! A truly beautiful spectacle in any garden! To emphasis the tiered effect it is a good idea to prune out the twiggy growths that can form between the branches. Its slow to medium growth rate and compact habit make it ideal for the smaller garden where it likes a full sun location in fertile, water retentive soil. This tree is often grown in a pot or container. Use a good quality John Innes compost as this plant will be there a long time and peaty types of compost eventually degrade, become too packed and choke the roots. Ensure you feed regularly as a hungry plant is a poor performer. We recommend Osmoscote pro 8-9 month applied in the early spring. One application gives all the nutrients the plant requires for the whole year. John Innes is a soils based compost. The plants supplied are a good size for the pot at approx. 30-35cm (12" - 14") tall excluding the pot but are not old enough to show the tiered effect and will most likely look irregularly shaped with a leader going off to the side because it wants to behave like a branch. The upright leader will develop as the tree grows and to assist this you should tie a new shoot that emerges near the centre of the plant to a stake. Please do not order this plant if you want one that has already developed its central trunk. These are grafted plants.
Specifications
- Brand Hortus Planta Ltd
- Type Ornamental
- Common Name Wedding Cake Tree Grafted
- Latin Name Cornus controversa Variegata
- Sunlight Full Sun|Partial Shade
- Watering Medium
- Aspect South-facing |West-facing|East-facing
- Climate Temperate
- Season Spring|Summer|Autumn
- Soil ph Acidic|Alkaline|Neutral
- Soil Type South-facing |West-facing|East-facing
- Hardiness H5 ( -15 to -10 C)
- Height 7.0 - 8.0 Mtrs
- Foliage Deciduous
Hortus Planta was bought to you in 2022. We operate from our nursery in West Sussex where all our plants are grown and from where everything we sell is dispatched. We are a small team. Our horticultural director has an impressive knowledge of plants gained over forty plus years of experience in propagation, production and customer service. Our team has 15 years of experience in online selling. We aim to use this combined expertise to bring you a desirable and interesting offer of quality plants and related products, with new items added annually.
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We ship via Royal Mail tracked 48 for our smaller items and Parcelforce Express 48 for our larger orders.
All items must be returned in the same condition it was received. Returns are processed within 1-2 business days upon return delivery date. Refunds are less the cost of the originally purchased shipping.
Please remember when purchasing from us that we are not a garden centre. In general garden centres sell a range of seasonal plants, that are sold for a limited period of time, when they look at their best. We are a nursery and offer you plants as near to an all year-round basis as possible. This means that at different times of year plants will not look at their best. In winter some may just be a pot of roots, in summer many will have been pruned and in autumn deciduous plants will have leaves that are dying and this will often mean they are mis-coloured and diseased, both natural ingredients of the process of decay and eventually renewal. All our plants have a one year, no quibble guarantee, from the date of order, so in the very unlikely event your poorly looking plant bought in autumn or winter (or in the case of some varieties, in summer) does not flourish in its main growing season, you are protected!